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North America's Progressive Community

Activist groups on the frontlines of change representing tens of millions of progressive-thinking North Americans.

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Apollo Alliance

The Apollo Alliance is a coalition of business, labor, environmental,
and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution in
America to reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil, cut the
carbon emissions that are destabilizing our climate, and expand
opportunities for American businesses and workers.

Arise Chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education and organizing and advocating for public policy changes. Its Worker Center is a community resource for workers, both immigrant and native-born, to learn about their rights and join fellow workers to improve workplace conditions.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now,
is the nation's largest community organization of low- and
moderate-income families, working together for social justice and
stronger communities. Since 1970, ACORN has grown to more than 350,000 member families, organized in 850
neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the U.S. and in cities
in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Canada.

Now in its second century, Audubon connects people with birds, nature and the environment that supports us all. Our national network of community-based nature centers, chapters, scientific, education, and advocacy programs engages millions of people from all walks of life in conservation action to protect and restore the natural world.

Avaaz.org is a new global web movement with a simple democratic
mission: to close the gap between the world we have, and the world most
people everywhere want. "Avaaz" means "Voice" in many Asian, Middle
Eastern and Eastern European languages. Across the world, most people
want stronger protections for the environment, greater respect for
human rights, and concerted efforts to end poverty, corruption and war.
Yet globalization faces a huge democratic deficit as international
decisions are shaped by political elites and unaccountable corporations
-- not the views and values of the world's people.

Backbone Campaign's mission is to provide creative strategies, artful activism trainings, and creative action support to progressive activists, organizers and organizations around the US and beyond in order to invigorate and nurture a people-power, community-based, and internationally-networked nonviolent social movement for human rights, thriving communities, and ecological wellbeing.

Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic.

BORDC's mission is to promote, organize, and support a diverse, effective, national grassroots movement to restore and protect civil rights and liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Our purpose is to educate people about the significance of those rights in our lives; to encourage widespread civic participation; and to cultivate and share the organizing tools and strategies needed for people to convert their concern, outrage, and fear into debate and action to restore Bill of Rights protections.

Born Free USA is a national animal advocacy nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, contributions to which are tax-deductible. Our mission is to end the suffering of wild animals in captivity, rescue individual animals in need, protect wildlife — including highly endangered species — in their natural habitats, and encourage compassionate conservation globally.

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and its legislative and grassroots affiliate, the Brady Campaign and its dedicated network of Million Mom March Chapters, is the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence.

We are devoted to creating an America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in our communities.

Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation's
decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. By changing policies,
programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, we
provide help and opportunity far beyond the communities in which we
live.

The Breakthrough Institute is a small think tank with big ideas.
Breakthrough is committed to creating a new progressive politics, one
that is large, aspirational, and asset-based. We believe that any
effective politics must speak to core needs and values, not issues and
interests, and we thus situate ourselves at the intersection of
politics, policy, philosophy, and the social sciences.

The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is
a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on
fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Our work ranges from
voting rights to redistricting reform, from access to the courts to
presidential power in the fight against terrorism.

The
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is a national coalition
of health
care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who
counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action,
advocacy,
education, research, and collaboration among organizations and
individuals who
care about children. CCFC is a project of Third Sector New
England (www.tsne.org).

The Campaign for America’s Future is the strategy
center for the progressive movement. Our goal is to forge the enduring
progressive majority needed to realize the America of shared prosperity
and equal opportunity that our country was meant to be.

Campaign for Innocent Victims in
Conflict (CIVIC) advocates on behalf of victims of armed conflict,
working to ensure they receive recognition and assistance from warring
parties. CIVIC persuaded the US Congress to establish
programs for war victims in Afghanistan and Iraq, guides victims to
assistance, brings the human cost of war to the attention of
policymakers and the public, and is advocating a new global standard of
conduct that warring parties should help where they have hurt.

TheCarbonUnderground was created to be the umbrella organization responsible for organizing, communicating and educating the world about the powerful climate change-reversing ability of healthy soil, and for helping to create the transformation of enough farms and grasslands to restore a healthy climate.

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We
place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped
with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families
and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's
community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread
of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic
opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency
aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild
their lives.

The Center for American Progress is a think tank dedicated to improving
the lives of Americans through ideas and action. We combine bold policy
ideas with a modern communications platform to help shape the national
debate, expose the hollowness of conservative governing philosophy, and
challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter.

The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is a Washington,
D.C.-based 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research organization
dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st
century. The Center is funded by grants from private foundations and
the generosity of thousands of individual donors.

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature - to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law, and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters, and climate that species need to survive.

The Center for Community Change strengthens, connects and mobilizes
grassroots groups to enhance their leadership, voice and power. We
believe that vibrant community-based organizations, led by the people
most affected by social and economic injustice, are key to putting an
end to the failed "on your own" mentality of the right and building a
new politics based on community values.

The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.

The
Center for Defense Information (CDI) provides expert analysis on
various components of U.S. national security, international security
and defense policy. CDI promotes wide-ranging discussion and debate on
security issues such as nuclear weapons, space security, missile
defense, small arms and military transformation.